What are your thoughts about Privado VPN?
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As suggested, I would also encourage you to use separate emails for each of you, no matter how close you are— and that's coming from an almost 30 years (and counting) lasting couple.
To be clear, we both have full access to the other accounts (email, health, everything, including financials) so keeping our own little 'secret' is not what's at stake for us (not mentioning that we simply respect the other's privacy). We just want to remove useless noise from our inboxes, and to be honest I really don't care much about reading her emails like she doesn't care about reading mine much either ;)
So, we own both our own domain name (name/surname). I also own other ones, including the one I'm using to log in here and to blog. I also heavily rely on email aliases/relays to subscribe to whatever I want to, so I know can always easily delete a spam-contaminated alias the moment I notice it starts sending me too much spam, without compromising my main email.
I can't tell the future. So, I don't have a list of what will edited/censored tomorrow ;)
I don't have a list of what have been edited either, sorry. Out of my mind, I think I can recall a few.
Most of us have at least heard about Amazon deleting t one edition of the '1984' novel from some of their customers device (one doesn't make that up—if you don't know what that book is about, it tells the story of fascist-like society in which the main characters works at the Truth Ministry, or something like that, and is charged with editing newspapers clips and change them (remove faces from pictures and change the text of the articles) so they always fit whatever the new and constantly changing narrative of that government is. I would encourage anyone to read it, as well as Huxley's 'Brave New World' which is at least as interesting as a way to question our own society).
But it should be really easy to find (many) other occurrences. Some about books or movies or series that were edited or completely suppressed because they're considered offensive to some audience, others because they're considered unhealthy (like removing the cigarette they were smoking, from some character's mouth). Others because the publisher did not like something in it or because the author wanted to—try to find a recent edition of the first trilogy of Star Wars without the added extra scenes Lucas so much wanted to put in.
And then there are the endless list of books, movies, series (and probably music too) that are not streamed at all or not re-printed. Either because they're not considered worth it, or because someone is afraid of the audience's reaction.
I won't list the one I have I can remember because I know very well some people are only waiting for that kind of excuse to jump in the conversation, without any other desire than to get offended and to create some polemic.
In any case, I consider the ever rising call to censorship, no matter the motivation, a good reason to own a copy of whatever I want to be able to read, listen to or watch, no matter what anyone could think about it.
And for all the content for which there is no print, DVD or CD available, no physical media at all, well, too bad for them I suppose because... they won't get my money. Simple as that. I already have access to enough offline/physical content to last me more than the time I have left to live, and I really don't think I will lose much by not being able to read the latest best-sellers, or watch the latest series or movies.
We've already seen books being rewritten to remove certain (offensive) words or sections being removed from re-editions, ebooks being removed from our reading device entirely and, obviously, we've all seen books being censored in some (school) libraries. Ditto for some comics. It's a bit less known (?) but a few movies have already been edited too (removing scenes that today's audience would consider offensive, or adding scenes (like in the original trilogy of Star Wars: all new releases includes those added scenes). With IA there would be no difficulty to edit a single scene, or even just some part of it, say to remove something/someone now considered offensive. We're now really into Orwell's 1984.
Imho, the only way to fight against that trend is in owning physical copies of whatever content you want to preserve. That's why I quit watching streaming platforms and reading 'purchased' ebooks and went back to DVDs/physical books that I fully own and that can't be remotely edited/removed from my home by anyone.
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Are you trying to be hired by Google? Then, maybe ;)
More seriously, I don't know if this matters. Do people really care about the address?
I've been using my own domain names for decades, what I'm using behind that name doesn't show. But I'm also old enough I don't need to worry about (un)pleasing any potential employer.
How does this even make sense? The criminals would just move to another platform like SimpleX or use a VPN.
Next move (and not just from Sweden): make the use of a VPN (and any fully encrypted service) illegal for the average citizen—who needs a backdoor when the law makes it a crime to simply use full E2EE? Let those be used with trust by the army, the press, organizations and people like that just not by common people that should have no privacy at all.
Politician incompetency and dishonesty will finish to ruin what little of Europe remains and what the word democracy was supposed to mean (which is not to consider your citizen like clueless children that can't understand shit and that can't be trusted).
But in exchange of ruining that they will get some more power and/or money, so that's fine I suppose.
Not sure to understand your point.
Ideas don't come out of emptiness. They never. There is no such thing as some genius that get a brand new idea all by themselves out of their unique genius mind. Ideas are always the consequence of some kind of interaction with other pre-existing ideas and/or with other persons and situations. Direclty or indirectly (say, by reading a book). Genius may help, but it still requires something for the idea to grow out/on.
Talking about books, someone rightfully mentioned Descartes. Even him, who doubted absolutely everything, the whole universe around him and even he himself existed as an a person, in order to reach what he would consider a trustworthy certainty (cogito, ergo sum, I think therefore I am). Even that dude still needed the existence of a God to be certain that the fact that he was thinking (aka, that his idea of what he was doing) could be considered true or, at least, reliable enough to build upon. Ideas don't come out of nowhere and never grow out of nothing.
Dislaimer: no René Descartes was harmed during the caricaturing his thoughts ;)
From Linus's reply:
Honestly, what you have been doing is basically saying "as a DMA maintainer I control what the DMA code is used for".
And that is not how any of this works.
What's next? Saying that particular drivers can't do DMA, because you don't like that device, and as a DMA maintainer you control who can use the DMA code?
That's literally exactly what you are trying to do with the Rust code.
You are saying that you disagree with Rust - which is fine, nobody has ever required you to write or read Rust code.
But then you take that stance to mean that the Rust code cannot even use or interface to code you maintain.
So let me be very clear: if you as a maintainer feel that you control who or what can use your code, YOU ARE WRONG.
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So this email is not about some "Rust policy". This email is about a much bigger issue: as a maintainer you are in charge of your code, sure - but you are not in charge of who uses the end result and how.
100% agree. No one should think they're entitled to be doing that.
Acting like if he owns a country and its institutions?
I do wonder for how much longer Trump will tolerate such a diva standing right next to him on scene?
(that's coming from a non-US citizen. I may not be the most well informed, mind you)
its not a huge issue, but its not a non-issue…
Well, it's not an issue for me and I also think it's a non-issue. Hopefully, you will allow me to have my own opinion on a question or should I ask for your permission first?
And btw by 'obsessing' I was only reacting to the fact that out of the two discussions/threads we participated in you and I in the last couple days (threads you initiated) both were about your very personal issue with people apparently heavily downvoting you. I could suggest you go back reading my answer in that first thread, but I'm starting to realize you may not want to discuss my suggestion and would rather be told you're right. Which I think you're not, if that was not obvious. See? I don't need to downvote you to share the fact I don't agree with you.
you don’t have to be so black and white with your dismissives.
Black and white? I'm not and I would even suggest that it would help (you) if you stopped making a personal attack out of any remark that doesn't fit your narrative. Was I supposed to write a 40 pages essay to make my opinion more acceptable to you? Fine, I will do it after I read your own 40 pages.
But worry not as I won't bother you with that ever again or with any suggestion that you would gain a lot by focusing your energy and time (think how precious time is) on things you can act upon, and learn to live with the world around you and people not being perfect (that means all of us, you and I included). If you really want to believe that fighting the 'issue' of Downvotes will make your life better, by all mean keep on doing it.
And be assured I did not Downvote you, and only tried to suggest you may be adventuring yourself in some kind of a dead-end and, once again, that you may be wasting some real precious time, time you will never be able to get back the day you realize you could have spend it on something worthwhile. Have a nice day.
edit: clarifications.
I think you obsess too much with that non-issue.
Hi, I’m 21/male from Germany and to me it seems like people here are constantly negative
Depends where you look, imho. (50+ male, from France ;))
I mean, if you mostly read negative topics, well, you will read more negative content. I don't read those (no politics, no drama, no call to hate, no nothing like that) and I don't have to read that much negativity.
Why do people waste all this time with complaining and being negative if they could use this time to be grateful, enjoy life and make the world a better place?
Let me ask you this: weren't you just negative by asking that instead of, say, showing us by example how to share/read positive content and... make the world a better place? See, negativity is very easy to fall into ;)
I think I’m noticing this particularly in older people including my parents.
I think you may be noticing wrong but who knows? Once again, I'm well into my 50s and I try to see things in a positive way, no matter what's going on. I don't think it's age (or sex/gender, or politics, or culinary taste)-related. It's a personal thing.
As far as I know, the current culture around dating/relationships includes meeting your SO’s family
Date someone that doesn't rely on ready-made recipes/expectations to meet people?
I mean if your family is screwed up (mine was), you should not be bothered to try to explain it to anyone. Not mentioning that most likely it'll end giving the exact opposite result of what you're looking for (I mean, anyone hearing someone telling them 'fear not, my family is nuts but me yeah I'm 100% ok' won't feel that confident about you). That's also useless.
Like I said, my family was... problematic. Did I try to rationalize them? nope. What I did is that as soon as I was able to, I let them behind me where they could live their live like they wanted to, and I started living my own... and meeting people that would not care the reason why 'mom/dad/family' was not an essential part of my own live. That works. Ask my spouse ;)
- My fountain pen (and ballpoint too), paper notebook and print books: no login required, no tracking, no sub (and no constant need to upgrade to the newest version: some of my fountain pens are older than I'm (I'm 50+ ;)
- My DVDs and CDs: no login required, no tracking, no sub.
Reading. Writing.
Like everybody around here, I get random downvotes too but I've yet to see anyone harassing that poor downvote button against my previous messages (I would not be surprised if this changed right after I publish this comment).
A few times, I 've seen multiple posts of mine get downvoted in a row in some thread. I supposed it was the action of someone disagreeing with me and wanting to 'punish' me for our diverging opinions but I could not tell, and I don't care much either.
Much more than knowing someone may not like what I said, I'm interested in knowing their reasons why they disagree with what I said, or how I said it (even more so that I'm still learning English, so any remark can help me correct mistakes no matter how unpleasant the remark can be).
Alas, many people seem to think downvoting is enough an argument to say out loud they disagree with someone and to demonstrate how wrong they're. It is not, at least not for me. I don't know about them but I only write what I think, and what I think doesn't change with the direction of the wind, or with the amount of + or - votes it receives. It can change when I'm faced with convincing arguments.
But arguments require a tad more work to share than just hitting the downvote button. Work not that many people seem to be willing to do.
What do you call 'political violence'?
The biggest counterpoint I have is simply that I enjoy camping. Good luck finding a desk lamp when you’re 5 miles into the woods.
Nothing to answer there :P
I encourage anyone with a brain to try for themselves instead of letting others make decisions for them.
May I ask how do one try the trustworthiness of a VPN?
I mean, if the question is to decide if it works or not, well, chances are it does work but that's not saying much. As much as I appreciate your suggestion to make up our own mind, well, in such a situation we can hardly decide by ourselves and we need independent audits. So, my question would be: are there any for that VPN you mentioned (I don't know anything about it myself, never heard about it, never used it, which means I have nothing against or for it).
All good suggestions, but this part is iffy. I’ve had course instructors provide boilerplate for students so that they don’t need to worry about formatting. There are also WYSIWYG LaTeX editors like LyX. Finally, language support for LaTeX has expanded considerably over the years.
Don't get me wrong, I framed my remark in regards to the context given by the OP: their students already have complained about too much configuration (clicking buttons/menus). So, in that context, I think telling them to use LaTeX even if using the Lyx or any other GUI (Lyx, which I would favor, is not bug free and has its own quirks, we should not forget that) or any simplified subset of LaTeX, well, that won't be fun for those student and I'm willing to bet most of them will even hate the experience. Something I would not wish to happen.
And then, always in that context, I suggested that maybe learning to properly use Styles and templates in LO Writer could be simpler since they already are using it... just not in the most optimal way, as it is so often the case since almost everybody think they already know how to use a word processor and there is nothing they need to learn. Not and instant and no-sweat solution but still should a less demanding one than starting to use LaTeX from scratch. At least, I think so.
I don't know it, my first question would be: who really owns it?
Then, I would immediately be suspicious of a deal promising me a 90% discount... But that's just me.